More inspirational words about the tie that binds... and bonds.
We are so very rich if we know just a few people
in a way in which we know no others.
~ Catherine Bramwell-Booth ~
We have a price to pay for depth in sharing in another’s life.
And the one payment that will yield
the greatest interest is time together.
~ Jack Mayhall ~
Communication means a sharing together
of what you really are.
With the stethoscope of love you listen
until you hear the heartbeat of the other.
~ Anonymous ~
Having someone who understands is a great blessing for others.
Being someone who understands is a great blessing to others.
~ Janette Oke ~
We all mold one another’s dreams.
We all hold each other’s fragile hopes in our hands.
We all touch others’ hearts.
~ Anonymous ~
No one can develop freely in this world
And find a full life without feeling understood
By at least one person.
~ Paul Tournier ~
The miles pass more swiftly,
taken in a joyous stride,
and all the world seems brighter
when friends walk by our side.
~ Anonymous ~
Unless we are particularly heroic or saintly persons,
each of us needs a relationship with at least one other person
who also seeks and trusts the simple way, the Simple Presence.
Such a “spiritual friend” can be enormously supportive to us,
and we to them.
~ Tilden H. Edwards ~
No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being
For whom it can feel trust and reverence.
~ George Eliot ~
In God’s Wisdom, He frequently chooses to meet our needs
by showing His love toward us
through the hands and hearts of others.
~ Jack Hayford ~
Beautiful and rich is an old friendship
Grateful to the touch as another ivory,
Smooth as aged wine, or sheen of tapestry
Where light has lingered, intimate and long.
~ Eunice Tiejens ~
The human contribution is the essential ingredient.
It is only in the giving of oneself
to others that we truly live.
~ Ethel Percy Andrus ~
Because of a friend, life is a little stronger,
Fuller, more gracious thing for the friend’s existence,
whether he be near or far.
If the friend is close at hand, that is best;
but if he is far away he still is there to think of,
to wonder about, to hear from, to write to,
to share life and experience with,
to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.
~ Arthur Christopher Benson ~
Good company on a journey makes the way to seem the shorter.
~ Izaak Walton ~
You’re blessed when you care.
At the moment of being “care-ful,”
you find yourselves cared for.
You’re blessed when you get your inside world—
your mind and heart—put right.
Then you can see God in the outside world.
~ Matthew 5:5-6 MSG ~
Friendship is something that raised us almost above humanity….
It is the sort of love one can imagine between angels.
~ C. S. Lewis ~
Hand grasps hand, eye lights eye
in good friendship, and great hearts expand,
and grow one in the sense of this world’s life.
~ Robert Browning ~
A true friend is one
who is concerned about what we are becoming,
who sees beyond the present relationship,
and who cares deeply about us as a whole person.
~ Gloria Gaither ~
~ Gloria Gaither ~
